Emergent Quantum Spacetime from Finite Information Flow

Zachariah Rose

Pruk Ninsook

The series Time as Phase Flow (Papers I–IV) established that time is not fundamental but emerges from the geometric phase flow of quantum information, providing a unified account of dynamically generated cosmological constants, informational temporal viscosity, and the suppression of large-scale structure. Despite these successes, a fundamental mechanism explaining why a single, stable observable reality emerges from the space of quantum informational states has remained unresolved. In this work, we introduce the framework of Information-Geometric Spacetime (IGS), in which spacetime itself emerges from the geometry of quantum information, entanglement, and modular flow. Within IGS, we define an Actualization Operator that mediates between quantum informational states and observable spacetime geometry. Derived from first principles, the operator combines entropy-based suppression with modular evolution, governed by a universal geometric constant β = 1/(π√3) ≈ 0.1837 fixed by the geometry of causal diamonds and the associated modular Hamiltonian. We show that actualization preserves information conservation and quantum unitarity, acting as a structural filter that selectively stabilizes informational states capable of forming consistent geometric reality, in close analogy with decoherence-driven classical emergence. Under this mechanism, previously identified cosmological effects—most notably the suppression of the matter power spectrum and the S_8 tension—are reinterpreted as observational consequences of information actualization rather than modifications of gravity or exotic matter. This framework also offers a geometric reformulation of the quantum measurement problem, in which the observer is not an external agent but an emergent process associated with modular structure and entanglement thermodynamics. The theory yields testable predictions in controlled quantum systems and forthcoming cosmological surveys, providing a concrete pathway toward empirical tests of spacetime emergence from quantum information.

Benjamin F. Dribus

Tsuyoshi Tohi

This volume develops a unified perspective on classical and quantum critical phenomena, information-flow bounds, and emergent spacetime geometry within the R-layer Mode Theory framework. Topics include percolation, scaling, quantum criticality, entanglement entropy, holographic duality, Lieb-Robinson bounds, and emergent geometric interpretation via layered Hilbert-space decomposition.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Thomas Görnitz, Holger Lyre

Mikheil Rusishvili

The Emergent Spacetime program (Informational Geometry of Emergent Spacetime – IGES) has shown that the linearized Information Open-systems Flow (IOF) on the Bures manifold of density operators projects to a symmetric hyperbolic hydrodynamic system whose characteristic cone is exactly Lorentzian. This established that spacetime causal structure can emerge from quantum information degradation, but only in the tangent-space approximation. In this work, we address the principal remaining gap: we provide strong numerical evidence for a Nonlinear Emergent Causal Structure Scenario, supporting the conclusion that an effective hyperbolic causal cone acts as a dynamically stable attractor of the full, nonlinear IOF dynamics. We implement a complete numerical simulation of two coupled qubits with dephasing on a 1D lattice, evolving the exact IOF on the 15-dimensional Bures manifold. At each time step we extract the Bures Hessian of the information degradation functional, construct the dynamic spectral gap ∆(t), compute the nonlinear Schur complement Keff(t), and measure the instantaneous cone deviation δ(t) ≡ supk |ω 2 (t, k) − c 2 s(t)k 2 |. We find that: (1) the fast/slow mode separation persists globally; (2) the spectral gap remains strictly positive, ∆(t) ≥ ∆0 > 0; (3) the effective reduced generator Keff(t) remains symmetric in the Bures metric to machine precision; (4) the cone deviation δ(t) decays as e −∆t , falling below 10−4 after a few gap times. These results provide significant evidence that the emergent hyperbolic causal structure is not a linear artifact – the effective causal cone is a robust attractor of the full gradient flow. This nonlinear stability suggests compatibility with Jacobson-type thermodynamic gravity scenarios. The complete simulation code and diagnostic data are provided as supplemental material.